Titii (Celtiberian)

[1] There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that the ancestors of the Celtiberian groups were installed in the Meseta area of the Iberian Peninsula from at least 1000 BC and probably much earlier.

[citation needed] The town of Aratis/Aratikos was rediscovered and identified in 2016 with the Iron Age site of Castejón I – El Romeral at Aranda de Moncayo in Zaragoza province.

Between 1993 and 2013, the five-hectare site was plundered by Ricardo Granada Pérez, a local retiree turned treasure hunter who, by using metal detectors and a GPR, illegally excavated 4,000 archeological artifacts dating from the 3rd to 1st centuries BC, including a set of eighteen celtiberian helmets of the Chalcidian type (a.k.a.

Out of this total, sixteen helmets were bought by the German building contractor and collector of antique weapons Axel Guttmann, who kept them on his private collection until his death in 2001.

[5][6][7] Often mentioned in the ancient sources as allies or clients of the Belli, they were subjected to Turboletae raids in the 3rd century BC and seem to have submitted by Carthage just prior to the Second Punic War, but what role they played in that conflict remains obscure.

The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC.
The extent of the Titii people is shown in light yellow.
Restored Hispano-Chalcidian helmet (Chalcidian type 02) from Aranda de Moncayo , dated from the 5th to 3rd centuries BC, exhibit in the Warsaw National Museum (MNW).